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I'm just asking, because I thought I was within my rights to watch a show precisely because it's awful. I'm speaking of course, of American Idol. The hostility towards AI here reflects much more on the persons expressing it than the actual corporate pop abortion that is that show most of the time.
I have no patience with those who disdain all of pop culture as somehow beneath them. Puh-leeze. There is something profoundly anti-democratic about this attitude I'm seeing. I suspect these people feel alienated from society itself, and concomittantly find its music and its other expressions deeply threatening. They express their anxiety by angrily lashing out at the products of pop culture. Some of you quite eloquently, I hasten to add.
Corporate music still sucks. Yes, I've seen the bumper sticker. And yes, so does Clay Aiken! I know! But the show and the phenomenon is fascinating in its own right, sociologically, televisually, and yes, even musically, despite giving us some truly bad music. Ponder that paradox for a moment.
There is the occasional good performance. But I have to wonder how many of you who disdain AI watch Fox News regularly, and perhaps post on their shenanigans here. Oh, you are just seeing what the enemy is up to, eh? Uh-huh.
I don't know about you, but I think people who watch Fox News are incredibly fucking stupid.
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